Had a USB one back in college. The art department required everyone buy zip disks to keep files on for the graphic design classes. So many corrupted disks. Basically just bought a spindle of CDR's and just backed my files up every week. Ah, the dark ages before cloud storage.

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Zip drives are possibly the singly crappiest technology I have ever had to deal with. Those things were a massive pain to even get connected, and those stupid disks failed constantly. I saw one at work recently shoved in a drawer, and just wanted to smash it with a hammer.

"I would be insulted if I could figure out exactly what it means."
--*Legion*

Yeah, Zip drives were all the rage during my early middle school days (late 90s, which probably tells you everything you need to know right there). My K-6 school had them everywhere. I didn't like the idea of a bulky extra peripheral for more storage, even if it had the same form factor as a floppy disk, I just never needed to store enough stuff to make it worthwhile. Plus, we were a Mac school, I think that added an extra wrinkle to it. None of them ever failed to my knowledge, but I've read about how crappy they were.